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Broken Masculinities: Solitude, Alienation, and Frustration in Turkish Literature After 1970
Cimen Gunay-Erkol
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Description for Broken Masculinities: Solitude, Alienation, and Frustration in Turkish Literature After 1970
Hardback. Broken Masculinities portrays the post-dictatorial novel of the 1970s in all its complexity, and introduces the reader to a 1968-era Turkey, a period which challenges Turkey's now reinforced Islamic image by portraying the quest for sexual liberation and critical student uprisings. Num Pages: 260 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVT; 3JJPL; DSBH; DSK; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. .
Broken Masculinities portrays the post-dictatorial novel of the 1970s in all its complexity, and introduces the reader to a 1968-era Turkey, a period which challenges Turkey's now reinforced Islamic image by portraying the quest for sexual liberation and critical student uprisings. Gunay-Erkol argues that the literature written after the 1970 coup in Turkey constitutes a coherent sub-genre and needs to be considered together. These novels share a common ground which is rich in images of men and women craving for power: general isolation, sexual-emotional frustration, and a traumatic sense of solitude and alienation. This book is an original and significant ... Read more
Broken Masculinities portrays the post-dictatorial novel of the 1970s in all its complexity, and introduces the reader to a 1968-era Turkey, a period which challenges Turkey's now reinforced Islamic image by portraying the quest for sexual liberation and critical student uprisings. Gunay-Erkol argues that the literature written after the 1970 coup in Turkey constitutes a coherent sub-genre and needs to be considered together. These novels share a common ground which is rich in images of men and women craving for power: general isolation, sexual-emotional frustration, and a traumatic sense of solitude and alienation. This book is an original and significant ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Central European University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
260
Place of Publication
Budapest, Hungary
ISBN
9786155225253
SKU
V9786155225253
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About Cimen Gunay-Erkol
Acknowledgements Prologue Preface Introduction Chapter 1 Quixotic and Hurt: Victimized Men as a Stable Ground 1 Men Under Surveillance: Coming of Age in Cetin Altan's Buyuk Gozalti 2 Masculinity as a National Preoccupation: Torture and Emasculization in Erdal Oz's Yaralisin 3 Masculinity Under Escalating Military Bureaucracy: Quixotic Sacrifice in M.C. Anday's Isa'nin Guncesi Chapter 2 On the ... Read more
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